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Introspective intense and poignant the wine of solitude is the most autobiographical of all irne nmirovskys novels now available in english for the first time imbued with melancholy and regret it explores the troubled relationship between a young girl her distant self absorbed mother and her mothers lover max. Irne nmirovsky evokes the places of her childhood with a sensuous clarity its publishers describe the wine of solitude as irne nmirovskys most autobiographical novel and the . Readers familiar with nmirovskys work suite franaise was a best seller when it was published posthumously in 2006 will recognize her touch in the wine of solitude from the lapidary . Le vin de solitude published in english as the wine of solitude is a novel by russian jewish author irne nmirovsky 1903 1942 who died in the holocaust it is considered to be partly autobiographical and tells the story of the protagonist hlne karol who shares much of nmirovskys early history. The wine of solitude irne nmirovsky sandra smith beginning in a fictionalized kiev the wine of solitude follows the karol family through the great war and the russian revolution as the young hlne grows from a dreamy unhappy child into a